NOTES AND COMMENTS Home grown ties and timber is the Scere of a big railroa company which has planted 625,- 006 young trees this year, making a tefl of 2,425,000 trees which have been set out since the road under- took scientific tree planting on a comprehensive scale, the largest forestry plan undertaken as yet by eny corporation. To prosecute the planting operations economically on a large scale neméssitates at pre- sent the importation of part of the plant material, Wecause European foresters, on account of the degree of perfection to which they have brought their work and the cheap- ness of labor, are able to supply certain forest trees for less than they can be purchased in America. This applies not only to native Eu- THE ORTHODOX ATHIEST The Man Wno Makes This Life an Empty Thing Despoils It of the Divine. God is eorae in all his thoughts. Psalms x. 4. There 4 are at least three kinds of Ee pee yh denies the ex- istence of an; nite and eternal spirit; that pach, while affirming, with much emphasis and elabora- tion of detail, the existence of such a spirit, yet lives as if there were none; and that which, whether af- firming or ae ae ing the fact, puts pothing of the divine into actual living. One’s intellectual conclusions as |! to the existence of suc das st may have been able ropean species, such as Scotch pine and European larch, but also to our own trees, particularly white pine and Douglas fir. This year the company has begun the propaga- tion of ornamenta) trees and plants for beautifying its shrubbery and hedges for the protection and orna- mentation of the and rights of way. This work will be continued until all station grounds and unoccupied spaces on the right of way are park- ed that they may afford as much pleasure as possible to the public. Besides reforestering old farm land and other open areas, as in the past, the field planting this year has restocked certain areas which he wexe logged during 1907, and has underplanted certain old locust plantations which needed inter- spersed trees to stimulate their | 5 growth in height and to regulate their form development. It is be- lieved that the conservative lumber- ing and forest planting which the company is conducting on its wood lots and farm lands which are not now needed for other purposes will serve as an object lesson for farm- ers and provide an incentive es intelligent. forest develop: the part of the public Searls: Tt ae is expected that in case no substi- tute for the wooden tie is develop- ed during the next thirty-five or forty years the company will have ready a part of the enormous sup- ply of timber needed for cross ties, which at the present time are be- coming exceedingly costly. pas SIR Sn, = A mosquito trap looks big in im- portance and small in size. It is the invention of Maxwell Lefroy of the Indian entomological depart- ment, which has found it distinctly efiective in a ‘tropical residence. The trap is a small box some twelve inches square and nine inches wide fitted with a hinged lid provided with a small orifice, over which moves a sliding cover. The box is lined with dark green baize, and has a tin floor. The trap is placed in a shady corner of the room, and the mosquitoes upon entering the heuse in the morning seclude them- sélves therein to escape the sun- light. When the insects have duly settled, the lid is shut, and about |" a teaspoonful of benzine is inject- ed into the box. Within a short time the mosquitoes succumb.. Mr. Lefroy continued this process daily until the mosquitoes ceased to b days he caught and killed over 2,- are familiar to many outside the ian zone. ——— BAD FOR MOTORISTS. in for Them. Consteration has ie caused g motorists in Auiatrio by the ane Eine regulating r traflic, the full import of the eiears hav- een expounded by Dr. Emil pare a well known Vienna. solicit Dr. vated fe that there is absolutely no. 0 the <a pay may be fixed by. any aoe feel tribunal. © “damage limit,”’ and in iat the iceation’ hostitlity of certain 0 motorists’ a fortune tary. ie Vienn: Club seeheita that the: position will “he most. eres me the law is rigor- ously admini: 5 Dr. Beicchaler says that but one “avenue of escape appears to be open to the motorists, and that is to 3° evade the law by the formation of ‘ited companies. Several motor- ists will join to form a company, each serene Fe Soria im, perhaps iy. with five Panbere will dbs shape "$25, 600 at its command, will purchase the cars of the woul id - ‘thee the new | station grounds Be troublesome, and within thirty-one | f' 300 of these insects whose ravages New Law pS in Austria Spells t W {had as members, giv-| fro; ; servant to share the ittle import- is that, as to tl specifications of the eity as con- ceive oa and particularly as pictured by the past, ust all be, if we fe living kent: atheists. ‘he important thing is not whe- ther we sen all cise details of ae i is whether we will) in our living. a man in all | Penerty that he a peliete ina God simply because 8 faile to cramp his intellect am ace tions long since outgrown, which |~ have been offered to him as essen- ae FAITH IN THE DIVINE. the man who can: in a God in that way may still hav the sense of a higher life that ed r life springs, goal and Aer of life to onan all cur best life turns. The divine is not a matter of de- tails ot a matter of gram: ith in the divine i: 2 abneye the consciousness and hope of that which defies description. u have no right fo eal! gouvdell an BEtiisl or so to label. another simply be- cause aa descriptions are eae He is true atheist who seeks life in the dust and ivine. He may be wel informed on theories of the di ; he may be that dangerous per- foe dhe piously orthodox atheist. The man who makes this life of ours an empty thing, eee ‘obs thi: world of its beauty and glory, who steals from life’s song she note that greg as to the pre- mee leity; the im- nie not believe i {vine and began to do the deeds di- the morning stars sang together, e heavenly chord, is simply he nine despoils life of the divine, of its ideals, its hopes, its sublime sac- rifices, who casts the cynics sneer over ee uth’s dreams, over , loves otlo: Tt ise make little difference whe- ther you can agree with your eer bor in your descriptions of the di vine. It would be an unfortunate thing if Soar idea of that infinite life and love could be so localized neighbor you yourself a he | ing something of the aivine and the |eternally good and ti WE NEED TO PRAY to be delivered not from incellecthal knowledges the fact of a God a yet denies his likeness in the ie You and your neighbor might quarrel forever as to your con gethe the ways of the needy and t and suffering. ‘This world needs God. It never If that word means eS you, as more and more it'must m n, in- finite goodness, eedidenueee, helpful- ness, affection, then the measure of your faith in such a being and such ction of quarrel over de- finitions and descriptions of the di-| 4, vine. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON|® INTERNATIONAL LESSON, i} . 6. Lesson X. Saul and Jonathan Slain in Battle. Golden Text, Amos 4. 12. 1. Now the Eby nne fuught against Israel—This of the massed strength o! na- tions. Ae mastery of Palestine was at st Mount aiiboa—A mountain peak, and also the range It formed the east mie ine. its ridge the Philistines fought and pursue Saul’s Gentes jaul—One son Saul—The Latin version translates tle was directed against Saul.’ The archers—The Israelites do the Sete for their aim cause pan‘e of fear. He was greatly distressed — “In great straits.” Whether this term means @ condition of inward ere is some weight in of the Septuagint te reads, ‘the sore wounded.’’ ‘According, to the story of 2 es he acted from a motorist’ for damage |1. 6 ‘was leaning upon) his onuset by or due to his car. He} spear.’ is responsible for the damage done| 4. Armor-bearer — An of by frightened oe and the|honor, and involving the oe of or, protection to — ki a. 8 person. both a weeoga aid and Sra eee EAe: this term would hold th cose of out words alien! and ‘‘infidel.’”” Abuse mi "Make sport of me.” Saul was aes not of the muti- lation of his body after death, but of the indignities sure to be heape' upon him as a a prison er. Recall the casé of Samson, was. nore afraid—A mingling of loyalty to his general and Tey we enc person of ‘ ne ed.” Therefore. Saul took his sword ideas of the next Jife as a shadowy, unattractive. existence vf suicide in all the ponbiiee @ Sam. 17.23; 1 Kings 16. 18; Matt. 5). 1h : a4 His armor-bearer .. .died with border skirmish but the o) a ‘lash ia | this strongho e this, “athe whole weight of the bat- = comes to David ene a peers for the news. The understood as a fabri AB messenger, or as another case of a second independent record of the datas event. m any case the ‘i ost ‘Srustworthy record is the one ec ‘All She men—This does not nigen every man in the army, but ties of 7. On the our pe of the patie —This could m 8S lon to Grtmel- on nthe west, or Ta- rthwest, or across the Naphtali. F the inhabitants watching with eager outcome of the battle. ted out into the plain ae that the happenings on its oaeS sata be seen for milés in almost every direction. All the neighbor- ing cities, as far as the Jordan, were left unprotected by the fall of interest the When the Philistines came to strip the slain—The asgusern with custom mentioned throws light upon the inhumanity of neient warfare. e David’s treatment a the Piguet giant, 9. it off his hea ped oie one armor—' tf Jehovah fares no better than the ly displayed a5 tro o The house of the Aap or. “the “temple of Astarte,” of which the: ‘as one at jan. ate Nahash, Bait Yad gone to its help a sam. 11), and now its daflig biheaated ‘a grateful remenbrance rescue the bh dy of their king a his sons. When David became ag one of his acts was to their brave deed (2 Sam. 2. for ‘men Went. all Fight The distance by the road it was necessary to travel, held by the Philistine: From the wall—This ‘fact of tak-, ing down the bodies and escaping paanie te ed could be accomplished if xy place just-outside the city wall it- self. a nt them there—By a slight e words would read, abhorren emation, . pecialBes Aine Sey later took nite bones and buried them, and a later David reinterred them in aul’s own tee ‘itory of Benjamin a Sam. 21. It was the past of an Eastern cs the fate-of bie mod 1-16 there is another account ce his leath, told” by @ SE ey Men who like~ the same things and women who haté the same peo- | ease, however, this kind was in the ascent e A lhe genie he ahrew: cue pout) € >| sure, ‘> 2} 10 brief uaa of the awful ‘atele ay. DANGER TO SKY PILOTS 5 BALLOONS OFTEN BURST WHEN HIGH IN THE AIR. Inexperienced Aeronaus do Not Understand Valves—Terrible ishaps. Well-made navigable balloons are d with were ig pas flat in a rcranis press, 105 pounds of water would on out and realy 35 of ae residue s, chemically speak- ie 45 Seca, of sorpen and nitro- gen, diffused through five and a Ealf_ pailfuls of ratte In plants | + -e find water thus mingling in no ne wonderful a manner sunflower evaporates one and a quarter pints of water a day, and a always provided with proper saf-| acre of growing ety-valves, which are so arranged|‘tlation, draws and’ passes out to allow the (gas to. escape only about ten tons of water per d when the essure The sap of plants is the medium great for the seatcty of the ere ing fabric. It is unfortunately the that inexperienced aeronauts do not always make pro- per use S these, and so the balloon ursts. The most remarkable instance of et rth two pe of gas when pr BSS at wae © stopped up o: the wax before the ascent thea ‘thet he might be able to accomplish more Be. ole sackful of ballast, which caused the balloon to shoot up into the air like a stone from scconds, being smashed t he navigable balloon, en rriv- en through the air at a high velo- also great Rae ok bursting in another way unknown to the erhariaal kind. There is a reat tendency for the end of the loon to be blown out. This not the front part of the bag, as Bae be imagined, but the rear Pthe gas in the front part of the concern is pressed upon heavily by as re gas at the back part, but there is no pressure of air—in fact, a vacuum is forme CLOUDS BRING DANGER. The result is a dangerous pres- which is often net @ burst out the end of ti ns so cause a terrible eS ee r to cope with this, the best dir- ri ible balloons“have extra thick- of materi order a strengthens he rear end, aad 80 prevent the tail point of the paltcon peing forced Another source-of danger to the cigar-shaped baloon is the. presence of clouds passing in front of the sun. sage “of - | envel Se THE WONDERS OF WATER. Almost Every Body Contains a Large percentage of Water. The extent to which water min- a | eles with eee apparently wha is wonderfw glittering opal, which = uty wears orna~ flint and water. The eh hate: in their raw state, the "5 per een ant the other 90 per cent. of w: If a a * weighing 140 pounds mber France is, fot instance, dyed by ecciecishe Genes cuiged wath NE ae IRS AS en UR Se ache y a similar process ; ; in Russta HILE it is unlikely any Russian it any baby: czar, who, if ever he gains the throne, will bear the title of Alexis II. Alexis was has four sisters to play to! set of brightly painted, funny little figures, that fitted one into er, Among his favorite playthings are a jointed serpent, that along in a fearsome manner, toys and from hidden phonographs. Then, too, the royal baby possesses magnificent ciothes and jeweled canes. The gems that. . regiment, of a Siberian regiment, of the ‘Arullery’ of Guard. regiment, of two dragoon regiments and of the corps of cadets of ‘Tashkent, besldes being comm mander of the Cos This Is enough illtaty: tonok for any. boy, Yon senesieliae when the boy is’ not Aaaoh ss ‘Was Inverted. pby—“Hverything that King ae touched turned to gold” "What do think of Billy-t've often heard it, but I have always thought that the story was in- vented by his advertisers. Homesick. ‘Tommie—Mamma, when a boy is away from home and wants to get back aw- ful bad—that is being homesick, ain't it?! a—Fe: e—Well, when he's sick of stav- mmie— ihe at home and wants to go skating, what do you call it? Crows’ Nest FHP ttt ttt+t+tttt+ +444 Pass Region + Vast New Treasure-House of Coal ; FEET TEETH tH HEH HEE Et ett te Forty-five billion tons of. coal, in-] 400,000 tons and cluded in the greatest coal- fields in western merica, nee This vast storehouse is located in male would 00 miles in ex- aus a rectangle 150 by 200 ent, comp in a 000 miles or 19, "200, 000 To put this pie in ue com-| tains, and i inter: 0 are Se eka rbin, president oft gpk 0} International railroad, a secured {cf interasebead with tl still have been within actualities, ie summii ithe Rocky mou ere run font this point e Canadian a charter from the provincial gov-| Pacific directly east: ne a ae ernment of British Columbia for a ‘ian Pacific, east of Michel, gangs are now in the feds Rea wor! ‘he lands i im sev! Piisen n sections, a total of 10,800 acres, for which the com+ pany holds crown grants from the provincial government of British Golumbi miles, a few years ago in or nie. This line of ro: been extended further up the pass to Michel. e railroad connecting with the Cana-] of longitude an Most Important Baby)» ef 200 miles to the 111tl mo. will “open eoal/ boundary of the end dt eontnbea aout: heck the nie would ee east of Great Falls at_a distance of only twelve miles. In Albert he stream. to Fernie, a distance of met ane few miles east of Medicine Hat the Crows’ Nest branc ‘ana- render Sar SnanE the output of oe dian Pacific soins the main line at’ coal mines at uke ds and eer Dunmore Junctio: e four lines bound a _rect- twenty- ee miles stale: 50 by 200 miles in extent, D equate miles or 19,200,000 eastern that point on to Calgary, which is’ boundary, where natural gas has Crows’ Nest is eee in the which the great Al 1 WHERE THE NEW COAL DEPOSITS WERE FOUND. > centre of the map and of the region coal deposits occup the railway pent of the southern part of The amount of coal yee hidden away waiting of min- ers and transportation facilities al- comprehension. lerlying By territory which ex- the Livingstone of the & epee tas pane mn the of the r Selwyn; of ithe dominion ° even, all-righty, e the “Blo t worth shucks, and would be to let those “Pirates” know all about: the boat So that very afternoon Mike Flannigan over to the 1 find any cant t! ind. a a fine penceiaed sole ta sia oft the island, so to forget the disap+ Pasta: “ail orien plunged into tha just like Skinny thought they ee piers ne n Billy Mumford, who's our capy e and Jack Warner t knew wh: had chucked all the clothes in the punt. for degr life. n bet your life we howled, es pettaliy ‘when the punt got ‘way: up the eek. But that. wasn’t all, We'd brought along a whole lot of old dresses that the fellows got fr: These we left on the b: “Pirates” had to put them on, ‘cause You led his “Pirates” out to the creek. But widens out, and Brewster's island ie Just the middie. tched the “Pirates” loose Farm- ae are conge or Hanlon’ mes and pole their way SE ET “MAYBE THE FARMERS DIDN'T GUY THEM!" there wasn’t anything eise for theni to, ‘We didn’t roar when they; as. e farmers d{dn’t guy tem! "Course, it got ell "round town. An’ I gan tel You ght. here=those Bitates cael Jnadder "n anything” Hornets wasn" hothing to them, But they yi ggeerved ed it all: Don’t you think they. STOLL ET NTS aS = cropping of Hoss seams as they are be found three or four miles nee of Morrissey, James McEvoy, geologist for the Crows’ Nest Pass Coal Company, estimates that there are over 22,1 ‘ons of coal available when transportation fa- cilities have been Accordin ys fig- rrissey measures a to- tat of 216 feet, in layers running in these tayees of rock are interspérsed ‘through strata of rock which form. coal seams, a depth of 4,736 feet from the upper to the lowest. seam of coal in the series. Mr: McEvoy estimates that at least one hundred feet of this total of 216 Jeet of coal ‘s workable and marketable. ~ “Although the extent of the coal lands in the entire area can on as a basis of the total available coal supply,” says Mr. McEvoy. A Bie figuring discloses what i ans. hundretl and thirty Bas miles ay duced to acres gives a total of 147,- One ac: yield 153,480. tons, an e yield of the 142, 200 acres would ie £2,505,200,000 ti eat as nae a total SRpeRER however, there is, in view of m recent exploration and decalopinees little doubt that it falls far short ns in of the actuality. ! area of 230 square miles, used as a basis by Mr. McEvoy, a study of the map Ane the facts as to the out Y SPOUDINES of from twelve to sixteen veins al on the eastern slopes upon the perty of the Leite! Collieries lompany at the eastern gateway ie Crows’ Nest Pass, “o' aivclones that this. great coal field is a fone within the spe of 230 square miles, and the eaitalatts ht have doubled his Ba the outcropping. of coal just i inches to over | j , together with the | tj, also beat, eae and is being used by railway company and by the den of the town for do- estic purposes; at Banff, in the northwestern corners all. along the on She ek, where it has been mined for domestic purpsses for many years; and on the headwaters of High River, where it has als beotrtaken out for use by the ranch- ers sr the last twenty y is of tons of it a pored atts y_miles. east cethbrides: TAt the latte; on S ie situated the mines of the ¢ by mpany, the oldest coal company in make territory,-and other mines of other sour of more recent de- ee 2 Tatil wost of oie ek Creek, ° the Crows’ Lundbreck, forty Macleod, to Saaiiean nine miles elow Fernie, aes mines are in constant 0) are ions 20d ‘the eastern slope of the Rock- jes these great coal measures re- veal themselves at various. points where they have been exposed by the upheaval of the Livingstone range and at Cat eee ain. Thus while it is igi coal. exists in paying eee in almost all parts of this 6 territory, what 13 commonly teed s the Crows’ Nest coal feld | occupies but a por- tion of the southwestern quarter of thirty to forty. fee! through at Morsiseey, Coal Creek, Hosmer and Michel, and ‘is of the® pate beige as exposed at Cat Mountai ain, the eastern slope of the Rockies and at other places up the Elk Rive: With the Siete up of the ‘rect- he Crows’ ure materially in pe fuel “supply North Am , in the “Fechnical | World ee [figures ae called his total 45,010,- Sole teat make The beggar’s ek is a ae in the